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 Post subject: Re: Pujols..ha
PostPosted: April 30 12, 3:26 pm 
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Some Angel fans just seem a little pissed....


http://www.angelswin.com/forum/forums/t ... 44&start=1
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My excitment about Pujols is gone. Flat out, the guy kinda sucks so far as an Angel


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kinda?

4 RBI's


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Carlos Gonzalez got more RBI's in one innin than Pujols has all year


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Kinda sucks so far? Kinda?

He has been horrible in the month of April.

Don't get me wrong, I know he will get better, but he has been PATHETIC this month.


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At least he fits in with his sucky team mates.



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Imagine if he hits like 11 homers all year. Seriously, just imagine it. The entire fanbase would have an aneurysm thinking about the next 9 years.


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Yeah I'm not excited about pujols anymore. You just gotta hope at some point he starts hitting. This whole team has no life, down 4 in the 9th and they all sit in the dugout with their hands on their heads.

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this is exactly the thread i was look for.. &^@% YOU Pujols! please retire you lying bastard... you know you are 37 - 38 .....


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Is Arte paying him a quarter of a billion dollars for his personality?

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I think it hurts even more with Matt Kemp just crushing it up the road and stealing all the thunder from us. Thats what gets to me most. It should be us dominating and the Dogs struggling.


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"The Pujols kinda sucks hard."

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I'd be shocked if he's in the lineup tomorrow night.

CF Trout
2B Kendrick
RF Hunter
DH Morales
1B Trumbo
LF Wells
3B Callaspo
C Ianetta
SS Aybar


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Yeah, I'm over all the "we got Pujols" BS!

We got Pujols for the next 9 years, 5 months.


Plus 10 years after that as a team representative.


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The good news: it really is still early in the grand scheme of things. If he hits .314 over his next 500 AB, he can still end up at .300 for the year.

(Hey, I'm just looking for anything right now...)


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&^@% Albert Pujols. I'm sure he's eventually going to turn it around and I'll start loving him again, but we finally get an "elite hitter" at the cost of the second largest contract in sports history, and he's putting up worse numbers than Wells at a time when we need him the most.


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I miss mo vaughn.


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El Hombre seems to be El Garbage...

Now...I was the world's largest AP fan (apologies to Cardinalgirl) and I thought there may be a period of adjustment, I never thought it would be what it has. Having watched him for 11 years...very closely, I am befuddled as to what is wrong.

- Why is he trying to pull every pitch? He never did this while with the Birds on the Bat
- Why is he getting into so many pitcher's counts? Seems every AB he's 0-1 or 0-2
- Why is he expanding his strike zone? In his heyday, he had the best eyes of anyone...he wouldnt take garbage and would mash hitters counts
- Where is his power??

On the bright side...with his not hitting at least he isnt hitting a GIDP to the SS.


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Why would anyone think it's just a slump when he's faced garbage pitchers most of us on this forum could hit in like 80% of these games. How many quality pitchers have the Angele seen thru these games? Like 4? The whole team is making junk pitchers look like Cy Young winners.

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What really hurts is that Matt Carpenter, the rookie first baseman who replaced him in St. Louis, has 14 RBI already.

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 Post subject: Re: Pujols..ha
PostPosted: April 30 12, 3:31 pm 
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Haha... "I miss Mo Vaughn". Ouch.

Albert seems to have caught whatever Adam Dunn had.

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 Post subject: Re: Pujols..ha
PostPosted: April 30 12, 3:40 pm 
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Haha... "I miss Mo Vaughn". Ouch.

Albert seems to have caught whatever Adam Dunn had.


Speaking of Dunn, check out the weird statistical course he is currently on.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/4808/adam-dunn

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   GP     AB       R     H   2B   3B   HR   RBI   BB   SO   SB   CS   AVG   OBP   SLG   OPS
   

   162   574   81   133   52   0   37   118   118   250   0   0   .231   .368   .513   .881

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 Post subject: Re: Pujols..ha
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He has officially completed his transformation into Rob Deer.

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PostPosted: April 30 12, 4:06 pm 
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As poor as his numbers are this year, it is hard to ignore the fact that he has a .253 BABIP despite a 24% LD rate.

The last two years, he's posted an average BABIP of .287 with a line drive percent around 17% -- a differential of 11.7% (typically you expect to see a BABIP around 12% higher than a LD rate).

With a line drive rate of 24% this year, you'd expect to see a BABIP significantly higher than what he's posted so far. Adding 11.7% to his BABIP gives us an adjusted-BABIP of .357.

Hypothetically, let's say some of those bullets hit right at fielders managed to fall for hits. Instead of 19 hits in 75 in-play at-bats, we're now looking at 27 hits in 75 in-play at-bats (.360 BABIP).

Suddenly, his slash line goes from...
.216 /.266 / .295 / .561, all the way up to...
.307 / .357 / .387 / .744

Not a very Pujolsian line, but certainly a hell of a lot better than his numbers currently indicate.
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I wonder how much being apart from his family plays into this. I read this in an article earlier today (maybe it was linked in this thread), but his family is still here in St. Louis, as his kids are still enrolled in school here. He doesn't even have a home in California yet. I imagine it would be especially difficult, if you aren't mentally right, to get your head straight in a new town with new teammates and no support system. I understand he's a professional and he's paid (handsomely) to play this game, but I think it would get damn lonely for a guy who (by many accounts) appears to be close to his family.
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I remember when he flew to St. Louis from NYC to watch his kid play a Little League game early in the season. I thought: How stupid is this? He could have kept his life perfectly in place and made $200+ million.

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what's he look like at the plate? I only saw his slump last year - and he looked like a different player at the plate-swinging at [expletive], not locked in etc etc.
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Now...I was the world's largest AP fan (apologies to Cardinalgirl)


Hoops McCann and Cardinalgirl must be on the defensive over there.

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